Senior Consultant & Ansible Network Automation Engineer at Tyto Athene — part of the Technology Accelerator Lab for Operational Needs (TALON). I design and build automation solutions that accelerate infrastructure delivery, harden systems at scale, and reduce manual operational toil.
- 🔧 Network Automation — Ansible-driven config, provisioning & lifecycle management across multi-vendor environments
- 🔒 Security Hardening — automated CIS Benchmark & STIG compliance across Windows, RHEL, and Ubuntu
- 🚀 CI/CD Pipelines — building pipelines that test, lint, and deploy infrastructure-as-code changes automatically
- ☁️ Cloud Infrastructure — provisioning and managing workloads on Azure & AWS with Terraform and Ansible
- 📜 Infrastructure as Code — turning manual runbooks into repeatable, version-controlled automation
- 🌍 Open Source — core contributor to Ansible Lockdown, used by organisations worldwide
Security baseline automation roles for CIS Benchmark and STIG compliance, maintained as part of the Lockdown Suite by MindPoint Group. These roles allow teams to automatically audit and remediate systems against industry-standard security frameworks.
| Platform | CIS | STIG |
|---|---|---|
| Windows 2019 | ||
| Windows 2016 | ||
| Windows 2010 | — | |
| Ubuntu 22 | — | |
| Ubuntu 20 | ||
| Ubuntu 18 | ||
| RHEL 8 | — |
When I'm not automating infrastructure, you'll find me deep in the world of electronic music — drum & bass, house, breakbeat, and anything with a good groove. The rhythm of a well-crafted DnB set and the rhythm of a well-built automation pipeline aren't that different — both are all about flow, timing, and not dropping the beat.
🏷️ Favourite Labels & More
A varied taste in collections spanning decades of electronic music — from the golden era of jungle through to modern neurofunk, liquid, techstep, and beyond.
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